Jose escribió:

Hi,

I am new to the list. I would like to parse wikitext files from wikipedia and have some doubts:

1. what is the best parser that gets the best rendering for wikipedia

content ?

MediaWiki parser.

And the fastest parser ?

I don't know a parser comparison but you can be really fast if you don't mind dropping some features.

2. If I decide to write my parser,

That's a bad idea.

how can I handle rendering of infoboxes/macros ?

They're called templates. There's a preprocessing step which substitutes templates. You then parse the result.

Maybe the idea is to parse the wikitext but handle the macros/infoboxes/templates with a separate library (as I imagine there are lots of different templates and it might be silly to try to parse/render each one as this might be handled well for existing libraries)

You can't parse each template separately, as templates are not independent, they have parameters.

thanks and regards jose

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